The Eiffel Tower in Paris with with lawn and visitors nearby

TOUR EIFFEL

Eiffel Tower’s 10 Containers Replaced by Two Bramidan Balers

Two Bramidan balers compact cardboard waste in limited space at the Eiffel Tower. Bramidan machinery keeps this renowned tourist attraction clean, tidy, and efficient.

From Challenges

Challenges

Restricted Space
Low ceiling
Large-Scale Needs

To Benefits

Benefits

No need for storage containers
Bales are easy to stack and store
Low profile, Small Footprint Baler

With Bramidan

Selected solution

Vertical Balers

Baler X25 HD

Space-saving, streamlining and efficiency

Large-Scale Needs

The Eiffel Tower is unusual because it is immense but vertical. The horizontal space is very limited.

Visitors are the justification for its existence, and storage is incompatible with its almost lace-like structure. More than 6.5 million people visit it and its restaurants and shops each year. The Tower boasts cuisine and all kinds of souvenirs.

Waste collections every day

Restricted Space

Until late 2009 waste disposal involved sorting waste and shredding paper, cardboard and plastic, which were then stored in 175 gallon containers. This required major storage capacity and gradually became unmanageable, even with waste collections every morning.

Problems included overflow, lack of space (no more containers could be added), a slow, inefficient, often overloaded process and complaints from occupants.

One bale replaces 10 containers

Low profile, Small Footprint Baler

SETE expanded the waste collection area at the base of the tower, but the 6.9-foot ceiling was a challenge. Only Bramidan was able to offer efficient, user-friendly machines that could be installed here. Thanks to the trust built over a ten-year relationship with Bramidan’s distributor Axiome, two X25 HD balers were chosen. They were perfect for the task.

The two balers now compact one ton of cardboard and 880 lbs of plastic each week, saving space: a 660 lbs baler replaces ten containers. They have only one control button and are extremely easy to use. Waste is collected as needed – two bales at a time – instead of daily collections. The balers not only solve all waste problems but also provide efficient waste management. For every 160 stones of compressed paper sold for $40, SETE saves the $175 it used to pay daily for container collection.

In conclusion, SETE’s waste management solution from Bramidan meets all expectations, especially the greatest need: space saving. The tower’s employees are very satisfied with SETE’s solution.

Waste is collected on demand – two bales at a time – instead of daily collections.

Purchase Manager

Paris

FACTS ABOUT

TOUR EIFFEL

The Société d’Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel is a mixed ownership company. 60% of it is owned by Paris City Council. Since 2005 it has maintained the Eiffel Tower, provided quality service and visitor safety, continually improved visitor care, appraised and carried out renovations, modernized public areas and added to the Tower’s prestige and Paris’s reputation as a capital of tourism and culture. Its turnover is 59.5 million euros, and its annual operating result 1.5 million euros. More than 500 people work at the Tower, almost half employed by SETE. The other half work for franchise holders and public services.

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